Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism, 1981-1991Granta Books, 1991 - 432 pages Rushdie at his most candid, impassioned, and incisive--an important and moving record of one writer's intellectual and personal odyssey. These 75 essays demonstrate Rushdie's range and prophetic vision, as he focuses on his fellow writers, on films, and on the mine-strewn ground of race, politics and religion. |
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... mean ' assimilation ' : a black man could only become integrated when he started behaving like a white one . After ' integration ... means telling cadets that black people are so ' culturally different that they can't help making trouble ...
... mean ' assimilation ' : a black man could only become integrated when he started behaving like a white one . After ' integration ... means telling cadets that black people are so ' culturally different that they can't help making trouble ...
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... means all the families involved are black . ) Presumably not enough people have been burned to death yet . Priorities are priorities , after all . How does the old song go ? The people's tape is deepest red ... On the second night of ...
... means all the families involved are black . ) Presumably not enough people have been burned to death yet . Priorities are priorities , after all . How does the old song go ? The people's tape is deepest red ... On the second night of ...
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... means of cancelling politics ; it ) does not and cannot turn back the clock . The religious revivals of the world are continuations of the political process by other means . At first glance the state of affairs in the United States of ...
... means of cancelling politics ; it ) does not and cannot turn back the clock . The religious revivals of the world are continuations of the political process by other means . At first glance the state of affairs in the United States of ...
Table des matières
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
IMAGINARY HOMELANDS 9 | 9 |
IN MIDNIGHTS CHILDREN | 22 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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adventure Africa American Anita Desai asked become believe Bombay Britain British Bruce called Calvino characters cinema Commonwealth literature culture death dream English exist fact faith feel fiction film Gandhi Grass Günter Grass Handsworth Songs happened Hindi Hindu human idea images imagination India Islam kind Kipling language literary live look Malan Márquez Mayta means Midnight's Children migrant movie murder Muslim Nadine Gordimer Naipaul narrator nation never novel novelist once Pakistan Palestinian perhaps political portrait Rajiv Raymond Carver readers reality religion religious Rian Malan SALMAN RUSHDIE Satanic Verses Satyajit Ray secular seems sense Shapinsky Sikh sort South speak story talking tells there's things Thomas Pynchon told true truth trying turn V. S. Naipaul Vargas Llosa Vietnam voice woman word writer